"BillW50" wrote in message
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I haven't used any Linux Live on any Windows system since that day
except I started today. And I tried 8.04, 9.10, and 12.04.1 so far of
Ubuntu Live and every one of them were accessing the Windows drive a
number of times while Linux was booting. Philo says that doesn't
happen.
Yet I bet it happens for everybody on any system. Why? What is Linux
doing with the Windows drive?

I tried the same with BartPE. And BartPE booted completely and the
Windows drive light never lit up even once. So there is no way anybody
is going to tell me that Linux Live doesn't touch your Windows drive.
As
the drive's access light is saying otherwise.
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While loading, a Linux Live CD checks if any hard drives are attached to
the system, so it can list them in the Linux GUI if the user wants to
mount them later. That's why the hard drive light flashes.... it has
nothing to do with "accessing" or writing to the hard drive, or
executing anything on the hard drive.
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Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+